COLUMBIA, MO. • If the Purdue game wasn’t rock bottom for Missouri’s secondary this year, it had to be the Kentucky game.
It would have seemed unfathomable to experience something worse than the day Mizzou turned Purdue’s David Blough into Drew Brees. He didn’t just singe the secondary back on Sept. 15. He dumped a can of gasoline on Barry Odom’s defense and blowtorched it for three-plus hours.
The Tigers outlasted Purdue that day 40-37 but set off alarms in the secondary. The post-mortem wasn’t pretty.
“We all got on the plane and were like, ‘Damn, we just gave up … how many yards?